Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message.

[Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>]

On 22/12/15 at 09:27pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:09:49 -0500
> > From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > >   . make sure display-startup-echo-area-message cannot be so easily
> > >     redefined or advised (up to some practical limit)
> > >
> > >   . allow the value to be a list of strings, each one a user name, and
> > >     prevent the echo-area message from being displayed if the user
> > >     name is one of these strings -- this should take care of the use
> > >     case in bug#12370
> > >
> > > Would you like to work on these enhancements?
> > 
> > Thanks but no thanks.  I'm not interested in obfuscating the
> > customization of Emacs
> 
> Overriding internal functions is hardly customization.  But anyway,
> that's the 1st item.

What would you call it?

> What about the second?  Doing that would fix the use case reported in
> bug#12370, without obfuscating anything else.

I suppose I'd be amenable letting the value be a regex, but I doubt
anyone here will agree to it! ;)

Joke aside, to do so would be enhancing that which I'm arguing is
a misfeature, so nope. Sorry.